Cole Rowe, the first Conduit

In America, yes, the land of freedom and righteousness, where meat burgers and obese adults grow more and more, was the country of one boy by the name of Cole Rowe. He was your average high schooler, a loner and quite depressed looking boy in public. He doesn't hang around people that much and would like to be alone most of the time. When someone does approach him, there was this awkward silent they would experience that make even the most extroverted of extroverts to be bored and bummed out

He usually wears a shirt since it's part of school regulation and some jeans. He also wears a very noticeable leather jacket with a blue and white bird symbol

His family is only his grandmother and older brother, Betty Rowe and Reggie Rowe. His grandmother was in her 70s but she's a lively old woman and a very kind woman. Reggie Rowe is a responsible brother who usually invites his younger brother to play with him outside, usually exploring abandoned factories and buildings, finding some good junk they could keep as a memento to when they visited the place

They seem normal, and normal they are. A normal, non special and superpowered family. Well… I just spoiled some stuff. Enter Kieran, our superhero and supervillain maker. He was fumbling with some stuff inside his shop when the space around his shifts

"Oh? Another customer?"

He prepares himself as he puts on his iconic gentle smile and stand in place. Back to Cole, he was going home one day, all alone and with a purple eye. His frown was very noticeable and deep as he walk with his head looking down at the ground. He went into a small street that he usually goes to to get home quickly after a bad day and that was also the place Kieran's shop space warp to

He was walking down the sidewalk when suddenly, he hears someone calling his name

"Cole Rowe."

"Huh?"

He look to his left and saw the wooden door of destiny. He stops and look up at the roof, inspecting the building before looking around him to check if someone was nearby. The small street was very empty at the moment with no sounds being emitted through the air. This build a tension that makes Cole nervous, then the voice spoke to him again

"Cole Rowe."

He look back and once again, it seem like the voice was coming from the door, or rather inside it. He approach it and reach his hand out to grab the doorknob. He turns it and push it inside. Only one word could describe the inside, darkness. A very deep, creepy, and dreadful darkness. However, Cole has this intuition that he should and have to walk inside. He gave in pretty easily because he's in a stunned state right now and walk into the darkness

The door slam shut behind him and the room instantly was filled with light. In front of him was three tables, two small at the sides and one larger table in the middle and at the end of the very wide and long room was a man in a butler outfit

"Greetings, esteemed customer."

His voice makes Cole nervous and yet calm. He takes one step forward and a voice assaulted his head

"Please!"

"Don't do it."

"I dare you to stop me."

"Fucking psycho!"

"C'mon, brother."

"I'll fuck you up."

These voices were familiar yet strange because the sound was augmented greatly. He couldn't make heads to tail at the voice's owners and that's when a very loud snap of a finger was resounded. Cole look up, his whole face was dripping with sweat as he look with a stunned and shock-filled face

"Looks like you have already chosen an item ahead of time, esteemed customer."

"W-what?"

"Come, let me show you your item."

The gentleman walk out from the side and approach Cole. He flinches when the man approach him and he stops when he did. He sighs and look at Cole straight in the face

"Should I wait here for you to calm down?"

Cole was once again assaulted with the nervous yet calming feeling of the man's voice. Cole look up at the man and said

"No, I'm… fine."

"Whatever you say, esteemed customer. But don't make a mess of my shop."

Cole nodded to the words of the man. The man snap his fingers and the whole shop change from an old and wooden interior to a more futuristic and metal-like. Cole look around in awe as the tables now contains strange rifles, guns, armors, and spherical orbs of metal in the middle table

"Come, here is the souvenir you have chosen ahead of time."

The man takes one of the spherical core from the table and toss it to Cole like it was a ball. Cole catches it and raise an eyebrow when he did. He look and examine the orb that felt very heavy. It has glass on it's hexagon shape sides and inside Cole could make out an small pebble suspended in the air inside. He shook the orb but the ball doesn't budge or make any movement like it was glued there. The man chuckle at Cole's strange behaviors and speak once again

"What you have before you is a Conduit Starter. A sphere that once activated, will send a specific wave of energy through your body and "start" something inside. I can't reveal what it is because it's different for everyone but all I can say is that, your world is so much inferior to the world where that orb came from."

Cole was half listening to the man and the other half was spent on observing the orb in his grasp. The man chuckle a bit more and introduce his name

"My name is Kieran. Can I ask for yours?"

"Huh? It's… Cole, Cole Rowe."

"Hmm, even the name matches."

"What?"

"Nothing. It's about time you leave, Cole. Your grandmother and brother would be getting nervous at home right now."

Cole widen his eyes and look at the man who just mentioned his grandmother and brother like he know them. The man snap his finger again and the interior change back to it's normal state when he entered, filled with weapons and strange objects

"Go, take the door behind you. And put the Conduit Starter inside your backpack for now, make sure no one came into possession of it, Cole."

The door opens behind him and a force pushed him out of the house and he landed on his butt. He sat up but when he look in front of him, the house was no longer there. It was just an empty plot of land filled with grass and a tree

He look down and saw the object that Kieran said to be the Conduit Starter. He puts the sphere into his backpack since he remembered the words of Kieran before he was pushed out by that mysterious force. He went back to his house, and that was the start of Cole's story of power in a world that'll soon be invaded by a force that he, and he alone could face head on

The story of the first Conduit, Cole Rowe